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Clamshell design. A flip phone demonstrating clamshell design, open (left) and closed (right) The clamshell form factor is based on the hinged design of the clam. Two schools of clamshell design: bio-design influenced Apple iBook (1999) and Bento box -like ThinkPad T43p (2005) A clamshell design is a kind of form factor for electronic devices ...
A helium flash is a very brief thermal runaway nuclear fusion of large quantities of helium into carbon through the triple-alpha process in the core of low mass stars (between 0.8 solar masses ( M☉) and 2.0 M☉ [1]) during their red giant phase. The Sun is predicted to experience a flash 1.2 billion years after it leaves the main sequence.
A giant clam from East Timor of over one meter in length. The giant clam is considered a delicacy in Japan (known as himejako ), France, Southeast Asia and many Pacific Islands. Some Asian foods include the meat from the muscles of clams. On the black market, giant clam shells are sold as decorative accoutrements.
v. t. e. An improvised explosive device ( IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs, or homemade bombs.
Lobster Telephone. Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James (1907–1984), a leading collector of surrealist art. In his 1942 book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dalí wrote teasingly of his demand to know why, when he asked for a ...
Active. 2channel ( Japanese: 2ちゃんねる, Hepburn: ni channeru), also known as 2ch, [5] Channel 2, [6] [7] and sometimes retrospectively as 2ch.net, [8] was an anonymous Japanese textboard [b] founded in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura. Described in 2007 as "Japan's most popular online community", [9] the site had a level of influence ...
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain. " She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain " (sometimes referred to as "Coming 'Round the Mountain") is a traditional folk song often categorized as children's music. The song is derived from the Christian spiritual known as " When the Chariot Comes ". It has been assigned the number 4204 in the Roud Folk Song ...
t. e. Eris ( / ˈɪərɪs, ˈɛrɪs /; Greek: Ἔρις Éris, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is Discordia, which means the same. Eris's Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Roman counterpart is Concordia, [3] though she is also described as opposing Nike, counterpart of the Roman Victoria.